Recalculation of earnings-related daily allowance and “resetting” of days

The maximum period for the payment of earnings-related daily allowance is usually 400 days. The days of earnings-related daily allowance payment are reset and the payment period restarts after you have worked at least 12 months. The working weeks must be accumulated within a period of 28 months.  

Days of earnings-related daily allowance payment are always reset after meeting the 12-month working condition and the maximum period starts over, even if the maximum period has not been reached.

Days of daily allowance payment can be reset with occasional work as long as the work meets the working condition. 

Please note that the working condition is 12 calendar months from 2 September 2024. 

The 80-percent rule protects the rate of daily allowance

A rule of protection is applied to the recalculation of earnings-related daily allowance if you have previously received the allowance. This means that the full rate of your new earnings-related daily allowance is at least 80 percent of your previous full earnings-related daily allowance. The protection can be applied if you meet the 12-month working condition before reaching the maximum period of daily allowance. The protection does not apply if you reach the maximum period of daily allowance before you meet the working condition.

The protection also does not apply if the payment of daily allowance has never started. For example, if you receive severance pay corresponding to 13 months’ salary when your employment is terminated, unemployment allowance is not paid for the period affected by the severance pay (approximately 13 months). If you become employed during the severance pay deferral period or immediately after and your employment lasts at least 12 months you meet the working condition again. In such case, the rate of earnings-related daily allowance is calculated from the work from which you have met the new 12-month working condtition and the 80 percent protection does not apply to the rate of daily allowance.         

The comparison used for the protection is always carried out with the earnings-related daily allowance of a fully unemployed person..
The protection only applies to full earnings-related daily allowance. If you receive adjusted daily allowance, the rate of your earnings-related daily allowance may be reduced by more than 20 percent, because other rules also apply to calculating adjusted daily allowance.

Additional days are not reset, and the rate of daily allowance is not reduced

Your maximum earnings-related daily allowance period will not be reset if you are already using additional days (unemployment path to retirement). This means that the maximum payment period is not reset, and the rate of earnings-related daily allowance is not recalculated, even if you perform work that meets the working condition after the payment of additional days has started. 

Additional days mean that you have exceeded the maximum payment period for earnings-related daily allowance (400 or 500 days in practice) and transferred to additional days. If the payment of additional days has started and you meet the working condition your maximum payment period will no longer be reset. The rate of earnings-related daily allowance will also not be recalculated, even if the rate would increase compared to your previous rate. The rate of earnings-related daily allowance is “locked” when you receive payment for your first additional day.